Let me say this about that. My dad was a cowboy.  Really, he was a cowboy.  But the range he rode, the cows he punched and his nighttime campfires out on the prairie, were all in his head.  He was a 19th century cowboy trapped in a 20th century laborer’s body.  His character, his personality and […]

Let me say this about that. Genny, as she was called by her parents Ed and Pearle, was born in 1923 in Buchanan, Virginia, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.  While Ed was a muscular man, standing a few inches over 6 feet tall, Pearle was a short rotund woman whose world revolved around […]

Let me say this about that. In 1957, I had just reached the age of twelve years and began to contemplate my future.  Or, as was the common expression in those days, “what was I to become when I grew up”.   Adult men in the deep south back then were defined by how they earned their […]

Let me say this about that. “Well, at least it was a Fair Fight”.  We’ve all heard this expression since we were kids.  A “Fair Fight”, as a way to settle differences of opinion, is as much a part of the American lexicon as the ‘right to bear arms’.  That’s what we Americans are all […]

Let me say this about that. Did you ever try to teach anything to a ten year-old boy? (you granddads out there can chime in any time).  I’ve tried it a few times, but I gotta tell ya, it’s completely beyond my skill set.  Oh, it’s not that I lack the education – I’ve done my […]